What does First B Jackson teach about healing miracle?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on healing miracles begins where the Bible begins it: with Jesus as the source and the credit belonging to no one else. When the pastors have worked through Acts 3 and the healing of the man lame from birth at the Beautiful Gate, the consistent emphasis has been that Peter and John did not do this by their own power or godliness. They said so themselves, and the preaching here has stayed close to that. The miracle was a sign that the age of grace had arrived, connecting directly to Isaiah 35 and its promise that the lame would leap like a deer.
Pastor Josh, Pastor Jonathan, and Pastor John have each noted that this passage raises honest questions for modern readers about whether healing gifts are still active today. Rather than settling that by argument, the teaching has focused on what the text itself insists on: that the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene is what healed that man, and that any crowd gathering around a miracle needs to hear who actually did it and why it matters. Peter's sermon to the crowd was urgent and pointed precisely because the healing was meant to open a door to the person behind it.
The Luke 13 account of the bent woman adds another layer. Pastor John walked through that story honestly, noting that Jesus saw a woman others had looked past for eighteen years, called her a daughter of Abraham, and set her free on the very day when the religious leaders thought it least appropriate. The healing was not incidental to the Sabbath controversy; it was the point. God was doing something, and the question the teaching keeps putting back to the congregation is whether they are able to recognize it.
Taught from Acts 3:1-26 · Isaiah 35 · Luke 13:10-21 · Acts 2:42 · Genesis 12:1-3
The passage taught · Acts 1
1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2 until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3 To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.
4 Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- November 17, 2024 Sunday Nov 17th Sermon from Pastor Ray Peter and John heal a man lame from birth, and Pastor Peter traces what happened, why it mattered, and what it means to receive grace you could never earn.
- November 17, 2024 Silver and Gold Have I None A lame man healed at the temple gate opens a question every believer faces: are we trying to be Peter, or do we need to see ourselves as the one who was lifted up?
- November 17, 2024 Silver and Gold Have None Peter and John stop for a lame beggar at the temple gate. A First Baptist Jackson sermon on Acts 3, seeing people who suffer and giving what you have.
- April 23, 2023 Daughter of Abraham, Set Free A pastor wrestles with his own indignance while preaching on Luke 13, where Jesus heals a suffering woman on the Sabbath and the crowd rejoices.